In a time when the world is face to face with dangerous tendencies of the current period, such as terrorism, local and regional conflicts, as well as the unresolved crises, the NATO foreign minister have gathered in Brussels, Belgium to mull ways out of such a complicated situation. …read more Source:...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (right) and Montenegro’s Foreign Minister Igor Luksic address a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. (AP/Virginia Mayo)NATO member states formally invited Montenegro to join the alliance, drawing a prompt response from Russia that it plans to suspend cooperation with the...

BRUSSELS: Nato invited Montenegro on Wednesday to become the 29th member of the US-led military alliance, defying Russian warnings it would be a provocation and threat to stability in Europe. The invitation to the small Balkan country comes with the West at loggerheads with Moscow over a host of issues, as Nato has responded to the Ukraine crisis...

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Borys Lozhkin. Noting that it was his first visit to Azerbaijan, head of the Presidential Administration …read more Source: Azerbaijan State News...

On December 2, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Askeran direction. From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was conducted by...

US Secretary of State John KerryAFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORIN Brussels, Belgium | AFP – US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday urged NATO allies to intensify the fight against the Islamic State as Washington leads the military campaign against the extremist group. “I called on every NATO ally to step up support in the fight against Daesh (IS),...

Dr. Nelli Babayan is the guest expert at “168 Hours”. She is Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC, where she studies Russia’s relations with the United States and the European Union. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany where she has been a senior researcher and lecturer in 2012-2015. Her...

On December 2, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Askeran direction. From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was conducted by...

LE BOURGET, France: US President Barack Obama (pix) led calls Tuesday for Turkey and Russia to end their dispute over the downing of a Russian fighter jet and focus instead on the real enemy – Islamic State jihadists. It came as Obama’s Pentagon chief said the US would increasingly rely on special operations forces to battle IS fighters in...